Quotes about Stereotypes
Before feminism, work was largely defined as what men did or would do. Thus, a working woman was someone who labored outside the home for money, masculine-style.
- Gloria Steinem
I always say I'm just eternally grateful for this role because Raven Reyes defies all stereotypes. It's revolutionary for a character on television, and it's also extremely creatively liberating as an artist.
- Lindsey Morgan
I'm a pragmatist. I think, as a woman, you have to be more careful. You have to be more communal, you have to say yes to more things than men, you have to worry about things that men don't have to worry about. But once we get enough women into leadership, we can break stereotypes down. If you lead, you get to decide.
- Sheryl Sandberg
For me, be it 'Arth' or 'Libaas' or 'Masoom,' there has always been space to break stereotypes or social constructs and perform beyond the norm. It happened all through my career and I am happy it did.
- Shabana Azmi
Here's the thing. We do a movie with a predominantly black cast, and it's put in a category of being a black film. When other movies are done with a predominantly white cast, we don't call them a white film. I'm trying to remove the stigma off things they call black films.
- Kevin Hart
I think the idea of crazy goalkeepers is an old thing, really.
- Lukasz Fabianski
It's taking a while for older women to be the norm on TV.
- Mary Nightingale
There were so few Asians on-screen when I grew up, and the ones who were on-screen weren't given complex characters to play.
- Constance Wu
There are a lot of funny women in my life. I never understand those movies where there's eight funny guys and two women who don't have any opinion or humour.
- Melissa McCarthy
I'm really very sorry, but it is not my fault. People are so annoying. All my pianists look exactly like poets, and all my poets look exactly like pianists
- Oscar Wilde
Gwendolen. How absurd to talk of the equality of the sexes! Where questions of self-sacrifice are concerned, men are infinitely beyond us.
- Oscar Wilde
The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes.
- Henry Ward Beecher